Is Antarctica no longer a continent?
this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2023
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If I remember my middle school geography class correctly
- North America
- South America
- Europe
- Asia
- Africa
- Australia
- The Moon?
- Antartica
- Zealandia
- Lemuria
- Mu
- R'lyeh
- Laputa
- Southernmost America
- Spare Europe
- Indian Supercontinent
- Pangaea II- Electric Boogaloo
- Pluto (has been further downgraded from Dwarf Planet)
- Your Mom
Seems like it checks out to me.
Different cultures count continents differently. I'm not sure about Spain, but you can check this out for how they're split sometimes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent#Number
From the article:
the Russians consider Eurasia a single continent
well now i wonder, how are Europe and Asia considered separate continents?
Cultural reasons.
The original definition is also pretty vague: Europa is first used in a geographic context in the Homeric Hymn to Delian Apollo, in reference to the western shore of the Aegean Sea.
Of course they fucking do, sigh.
A broken clock...
I mean, look at the globe with satellite view and tell me where one ends and the other begins.
I mean, the Ural mountains are a pretty solid demarcation line, I agree it's not as tidy as an ocean but still.
India is a separate subcontinent as well, but we don't question that.
Look at a satellite view and tell me Urals separate continents but not the Himalayas, the Rockies or the Atlas.
You could argue the Atlas and Rockies are too close to the edge, so the land they separate is too small to be a continent
India is on a separate tectonic plate to the rest of Europe / Asia.
IMO, if you're looking at continents purely from a geographic/geologic frame of mind, dividing them up based on what plate they are on makes the most sense. But, that would not take into account cultural/political/legal boundaries, all of which are probably more important day-to-day.
A race, into space? A competition to see who can get to the moon first? Perhaps some sort of space race?
that leg of the competition is over. new leg is permanent outpost. so like a wild west movie but bouncy and chrome.
It’s a race to the South Pole. Beware the ice bergs and penguins